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Rh and his watch and rings were gone. As he read this information Jonathan remembered two men whom he had seen upon the common, and he went immediately to the police-station and described their appearance as well as he could. He felt then that he had done his full duty, and he tried in some measure to dismiss the event from his mind.

But the very absence of Eleanor kept it present. That he should have sent her back to her husband was a part of the miracle which had set his life in an atmosphere of wonder. When he entered the parlor the thought was not in his mind. The words had sprung unconsciously to his lips. They had been no more the outcome of his own heart than was the humanity of his action to his bleeding enemy. Nay, the sending back of Eleanor was the more remarkable of the two events. It was the surrender of his sharpest weapon to his foe. "It's the Lord's doing! It's the Lord's doing!" he kept assuring himself, "and, doubtless, he knows how it is a' to end, for it caps me!"

It being Christmas-day also helped to rivet and to intensify the impressions of the circumstances. He gave much larger gifts to his